Nathan George Evans

Nathan George Evans (3 February 1824-23 November 1868) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Nathan George Evans was born in Marion County, South Carolina in 1824, and he graduated from West Point in 1848 and served in the US Army dragoons in the American West. He joined the Confederate States Army when the American Civil War broke out, commanding a brigade of Virginia and Mississippi troops on the upper fords of the Potomac River above Washington DC. He was promoted to Brigadier-General after his victory at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in 1861, and he later defended the South Carolina coast. In 1862, he fought at the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of South Mountain, and the Battle of Antietam, and he was later tried and acquitted for drunkenness at the Battle of Kinston. Evans' brigade later fought at the Siege of Vicksburg, and he was injured in a buggy accident in Charleston before he could head north to fight in the Siege of Petersburg. He died of his wounds in 1868.